Dollhouse Building

Pleasantville is a town built by three girls. (My sisters and I.) We are not very good at building things, so the most we can do is make little model buildings out of packing tape and cardboard.

However, we are very lucky to have a father who not only LOVES to build things, but is an artist and a creator of the highest level when he gets excited about a project. The most beautiful and realistic buildings in Pleasantville are all thanks to him and his building and planning abilities. These houses are all planned and executed from scratch, without following any instructions or plans. They are based on ideas from buildings around the world and in different time periods.Each of the dollhouses is about a quarter scale in size - that is 1/4 of human-size.

So here are the stories behind the buildings that he has built in Pleasantville so far. Our hope is that eventually the whole town will be made out of beautiful wood and design instead of all being cardboard, and hopefully it will get there!

New Dollhouse currently in the workshop: Bamboo Terrace Chinese Restaurant!

Making the Montoya's Rancho - We wanted the Montoya's house to be really authentic. The three of us girls first made the house out of cardboard covered in sculpey clay (many long hours of rubbing clay into cardboard with hurting fingers resulted in the original, sagging clay walls that you can still see in old pictures.)

Making the Town Square Apartments

Making the Town Square Apartments - When it came time to replace the sagging cardboard houses that Suzanne and Cristal used to live in (around the same time period that the Kitty Kapers was filmed) my dad inquired what the style of the building should be. What did we want it to look like?

Making the Pleasantville Courthouse

Making the Pleasantville Courthouse - We always wanted the Courthouse to be majestic. For years and years our white-painted-cardboard-house worked for the town until it's walls began to chip off paint and the ceiling started to cave in. (Although, that was partly due to Meimei and Vera deciding to live on the roof.)

Making the Ferris Wheel

Making the Ferris Wheel- The ferris wheel was a tough project to tackle. It had to be small enough to use hula hoops, but large enough and strong enough to hold a wheel full of dolls without them falling out.

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